In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative.

In other hands, the limpid prose might be dull, but not here: we are guided by a scholarly, curious, skeptical thinker, who finds New York less "open" than the novel's title promises.

The book is written in limpid prose, imbued with poetry, leavened with humor, graced with moments of transcendent beauty.

An Irish Times review of Arras of Youth stated "Mr. Onions writes limpid and often beautiful prose".

Lightman's lucid, limpid prose is an attempt to restore the proper weight to our representation of experience.

In the new book, with his limpid prose and artfully reconstructed dialogue, he also writes about his quiet craving for creativity.

It was one of those very skillful novels, exquisitely written in limpid prose -Farrokh knew that much - and this intimidated him, too.

It's not that there is anything strained about Kidder's limpid, graceful and intermittently lyrical prose.

His genial, ironic demeanor and limpid personal prose disguised more than they revealed.